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• allan Posts: 65,628Questions: 1Answers: 10,913 Site admin

  March 20

  I'll need to look into that - that should have worked. Thanks for letting me know.

  Another option is to add the data using an object, rather than a Node. See this section of the API for details.

  Allan
• kthorngren Posts: 22,423Questions: 26Answers: 5,156

  March 20 edited March 20 Answer ✓

  A few things:

  1. The HTML5 data attributes. for sorting only work with an HTML table and the table must have at least one row when Datatables initializes. This way Datatables will find data-order in the row during initialization to start using it. If data-order is not in the HTML table when initialized then normal ordering of the data in the column will be used. In other words if you are using row.add() with an empty table then data-order won't be used. See the HTML5 orthogonal data docs for more details.
  2. You need to use draw() to have Datatables resort the table after using row.add().
  3. You are using double quotes to enclose the string and within the string you are using double quotes. I'm surprised you aren't getting a syntax error. Try surrounding the string with single quotes, like this:

  $dataTable.row.add($('<tr><td data-order="1">someformatting 1</td></tr>')[0]).draw();
  

  Also note the added draw(). Here is a running example with your code snippet:
  https://live.datatables.net/fabosexi/1/edit

  If you still need help then please provide a test case showing the issue so we can help debug.
  https://datatables.net/manual/tech-notes/10#How-to-provide-a-test-case

  Kevin
• tward392 Posts: 2Questions: 1Answers: 0

  March 20

  1. Adding a row to the table with data-order="1" seems to have fixed it.
  2. That was a typo, sorry.